Pierre Aristide André Brouillet (1 September 1857 – 6 December 1914) was a French academic painter specialising in genre painting, portraits and landscapes.
[3] Charcot is represented there with a large number of his students and collaborators, including Théodule-Armand Ribot, Paul Richer and Gilles de La Tourette.
[5][failed verification] Brouillet is also the author of La Violation du tombeau d'Urgel par les Dominicains[6] L'Exorcisme - Musiciens arabes chassant le djinn du corps d'un enfant, Le Paysan blessé (Salon of 1886), L'Ambulance de la Comédie-Française en 1870 (1891), Le Vaccin du croup à l'hôpital Trousseau (1895), as well as portraits of personalities of the time, including Joseph Babinski.
Influenced by his master Jean-Léon Gérôme, Brouillet devoted himself to orientalist painting, thanks to his discovery of his wife, Emma Isaac, native country, daughter of a rich Constantine Jewish merchant, cousin of Ferdinand Isaac, whose daughter, Yvonne, born out of wedlock in 1889 in Constantine, he even adopted when his mother, Marie-Louise Travers died 19 December 1892.
[9] In 1906, he was made an officier of the Légion d'honneur[10] at the same time as he received the gold medal at the Salon where he presented his great composition for the Sorbonne Les étudiants acclament Edgar Quinet et Edmond Michelet le 6 mars 1848 lorsqu'ils reprennent possession de leur chaire.